I still don't know my sensei's rank or past experience but I won't forget to ask next time. Anyway we did a sort of randori last class. And he said that he did some research and discovered and told to the class that Master Ueshiba(sp?) took Aiki-Jutsu before he developed Aikido. Yes, I already knew this but now I'm wondering why he had to research it.

Kai
"Feel the pain, feel the joy, of a man... who was never a boy..." - X